Traditional Definition:
- A love triangle is a romantic dynamic involving three people. Typically, it features one central person pursued by two others who compete for their affection, or one person simultaneously involved with two others. It is a common source of intense emotional conflict and narrative tension.

Urban Dictionary Definition:
- A triangle that is able to feel love.
- 2 people in love with the same person,Person loved on top,2 people who like person on bottom corners.Stupid love triangels.Name trianges after initails in everones first name.
- When you smoke some weed with yourself and 2 other people (3 people, hence the triangle). Just 3 heads, not too little or too many.

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A deep dive into my formative years in the paranormal alongside thoughts on life.

You got a friend in me.

Etta James: Willow Weep For Me

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Hexagram 28: < Da (Greatness) Guo (in Excess)>
aka the GTFO the house's bout to collapse

Judgement/Blurb:
The ridgepole bends. Beneficial to have a destination. Success.

Yao/Line Texts:
Top 6/Yin: Crossing too far, the water covers the head. Ominous, yet no blame.
5th 9/Yang: A withered poplar flower. An old woman takes a strong husband. No blame, no praise.
4th 9/Yang: The ridgepole rises. Auspicious. If there is something else, hardship.
3rd 9/Yang: The ridgepole bends. Ominous.
2nd 9/Yang: A withered poplar sprouts. An old man takes a young wife. Nothing is not beneficial.
1st 6/Yin: Use white grass as a mat. No blame.

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From Wolfram Eberhard's "Dictionary of Chinese Symbols":

The willow, much valued as firewood, is a symbol of spring. As spring is the season
of erotic awakenings, the phrase ‘willow feelings and flower wishes’ means sexual
desire; ‘looking for flowers and buying willows’ means visiting a prostitute, ‘flowers and
willows by the wayside’ are prostitutes, and ‘sleeping among flowers and reposing
beneath willows’ is a term for visiting a brothel.

The waist of a beautiful woman is compared to the willow, her eyebrows to
the curve of willow leaves. A young girl is a ‘tender willow and fresh flower’ while
a woman who can no longer claim virginal freshness is described as ‘faded willow and
withered flower’. A woman’s pubic hair is ‘in the depths of willow shade’.

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In ancient China, the gourd was an essential ritual instrument used in ceremonies like the imperial ancestor ceremonies and wedding ceremonies. According to the Book of Rites, a gourd was used because it symbolized the nature of heaven and earth. Ancient scholars who studied the Book of Rites noted that the use of gourds in weddings signified the use of household utensils, marking the beginning of a husband and wife's life together.

According to the ancient Book of Etiquette and Ceremonies, a crucial part of ancient wedding rituals was wine in gourd ladles, where a gourd was divided into two ladles, each filled with wine for the bride and groom to drink. When these two ladles were brought together, they formed a complete gourd, symbolizing the unity of husband and wife who would share joys and sorrows for the rest of their lives. Over time, this tradition evolved into the modern practice of the wine-sharing ceremony at Chinese weddings.

The gourd was also a significant material for making musical instruments. In one ancient text, it is mentioned as one of the eight materials used for creating musical instruments. The eight materials in the text are gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, wood, gourd, and bamboo.

In Daoism, the shape of the gourd represents the sky and the earth, the infinite, the universe, a magical world, a parallel universe, or an entry into another world, where immortals or persons practicing Daoism can travel to – signifying self-content and sufficiency. There are old Chinese stories describing people accidentally taking small and narrow paths to enter a magical world, where people enjoy peace and long life. In some Chinese parks and gardens, gourd shaped gates are common, along with other shapes with various symbols.

Out of the eight Taoist immortals (八仙 – bāxiān), the gourd personalises Tie Guai Li (鐵拐李), also known as “Iron-Crutch Li”. The story says that one day, Li left his body to visit Laozi 老子 on the sacred mountain Hua Shan (花山- huāshān). Before leaving, he asked one of his disciples to watch his body in his absence, and if he would not return in seven days, the disciple should burn his body. On the 6th day, the disciple found out that his mother was very sick and, as a good son, he returned home immediately, but not before burning Li’s body. When Li returned and found his ashes, he had no choice but to enter the first body he found, of a beggar who had just died. So, he transformed the beggar’s bamboo crutch into one of magic iron that could transform things. He then obtained the potion for immortality inside the gourd he had with him and used it to revive the disciple’s mother. When he wanted to sleep, he made himself extremely small and entered the gourd.

The two parts of the gourd also symbolise the immortality potion, obtained by refining the red cinnabar from the upper part into mercury from the lower part.

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From Zhu Xi's "Original Meaning Of the Yijing":

屯/Zhun (Difficult Beginning)

Kan/Water above
Zhen/Thunder below

Zhen has a single yang line moving in beneath two yin lines, so it's virtue is activity and it's image is thunder.

Kan has a single yang trapped between two yin lines, so it's virtue is being trapped, or danger; it's image is clouds, rain or water.

Zhun is the name of this hexagram. It means the point when something is beginning to arise but has not yet fully come through. In terms of the character it represents a sprout beginning to break out of the earth but not yet through.

The hexagram is Zhen encountering Kan, hence the name of the hexagram. Zhen is active below and Kan is danger above; this is the ability to act in the midst of danger. Although the ability to act can be successful, when in danger it is better to hold onto correctness (aka correct principles; observe the times before making a move) and not to advance suddenly. Therefore when a divination yields this hexagram, the prognostication is greatly successful, appropriate and correct, but one can not suddenly have somewhere to go.

Also 9 at the beginning (first line), the yang residing below the yin and all other lines, is the ruler of this entire hexagram. This is the image of the worthy subordinate who wins the support of the people to become a ruler/leader.